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Once you get to ME3 you gain access to the Valiant, the best gun in the universe.

You guys are making it very difficult to continue putting off another replay of the trilogy and it's like I got other stuff to do in my life than play Mass Effect all the time.

Anyway, as for mods, I never used many but I remember ME2's loading screens were tied to the length of that animation (elevator moving in the Normandy or whatever) regardless of how quickly your computer actually loaded, so there's either a mod to shorten those animations or you could just like delete them and have a brief black screen, can't remember. Apparently there's a mod, though some of the comments suggest it crashes with DLC loads, though page 2 comments seem to have a fix. Big quality of life improvement, anyway.

Also, save editing to just give yourself a bunch of the stupid resources and whatever, because who needs tedious grinding when we already got day jobs.

And there's literally just like an .ini file you can edit with weapon parameters and some power parameters. Not recommended for a normal playthrough, but giving the Widow a 100-round mag + the fire rate of the Revenant and turning it into a machine gun that punches holes in gods was hilarious, even if it meant heavy mouse swinging when fighting wicked recoil.

You also had to ini edit to get the controls to actually work like a proper PC game instead of a console "one button does everything" abomination

Not a problem if you use the controller mod. But yeah, if you want to play KBAM I could see that being a useful tweak.

I think that the internet has been for years on the path to creating what is essentially an electronic Necronomicon: A collection of blasphemous unrealities so perverse that to even glimpse at its contents, if but for a moment, is to irrevocably forfeit a portion of your sanity.

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I disapprove. I don't even have a good reason to. I just do. Bah humbug.

(edit: it actually looks and sounds super impressive and I'll probably install it sometime. I don't even know why it bugs me that it's on the front page of the store. I guess I'm just feeling irrational today.)

I disapprove. I don't even have a good reason to. I just do. Bah humbug.

(edit: it actually looks and sounds super impressive and I'll probably install it sometime. I don't even know why it bugs me that it's on the front page of the store. I guess I'm just feeling irrational today.)

They've done this sort of thing since at least ARK, if not earlier. In fact, one of their "official" DLC/Mod maps is abandoned and has many, many issues with it. So as Ais says, Steam Stamp of Quality.

Got my dread knot with the X configuration, don't understand why there weren't any turrets at the end of those. So now I'm just going rack up some money and get enough weapons the fully kitted out and then I shall .....*crashes into tiny bit of wreckage after exiting warp then explodes*

Really happy there's no perma death in this thing. Is there a rogue like version of this game play model?

Because I want to decrypt alien transmissions and open up a subspace anomaly to the prison dimension and steal the death ray of the nightmare rainbow

I also bought Duke Nukem Forever. Because I keep hearing how bad it is and feel I need to experience it first hand.

Its bad. Its real real bad. I wanted it to be decent, but it doesnt even come close.

Duke Nukem Forever tries so hard to be Half Life 2 that it starts to get sad partway through the game. It's worth playing just to actually experience it though, and there are parts that are entertaining. It's really tragic how mediocre it ended up.

I disapprove. I don't even have a good reason to. I just do. Bah humbug.

(edit: it actually looks and sounds super impressive and I'll probably install it sometime. I don't even know why it bugs me that it's on the front page of the store. I guess I'm just feeling irrational today.)

I installed this and took a look. It has a very impressive intro and I'm curious to see where things go from here. Even if it has a lot of fairly average fantasy stuff about mighty wizards and destinies and whatnot, they've spent a lot of effort on this and so far it looks and sounds great. Hard to beat the price of 0 too.

It was originally a PS3 exclusive. A very pretty exploration game where you are basically wind collecting flower petals to move on to the next area. $7 is a pretty good price for it, but be warned: it is a very short game.

Arcade Spirits, a romantic visual novel, follows an alternate timeline set in the year 20XX where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. After a turbulent work history, you are granted employment at the Funplex, a popular arcade, home to a host of unique personalities and customers. Where will this new-found employment take you? Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?

Design your own character from the ground up - pronoun, hairstyle, skin tone, hair color, eye color and more are completely customizable and are reflected throughout the game in both gameplay and artwork!

With roleplaying-based choices, you will be able to grow your personality and relationships in any way you desire; Friendship, Platonic or something more intimate! Work hard and build the relationship you desire with a total of seven romanceable characters!

The Identity Identifier System, or IRIS, can track your relationship statuses with all characters throughout Arcade Spirits as well as your personality traits, from Quirky, Steady, and Kindly, to Gutsy and Basically.

Everything you choose in Arcade Spirits, from your relationships to your personality, your crisis management moments, and a myriad other decision will have an effect on the future of your arcade!

It was originally a PS3 exclusive. A very pretty exploration game where you are basically wind collecting flower petals to move on to the next area. $7 is a pretty good price for it, but be warned: it is a very short game.

Similarly, ThatGameCompany's OTHER game, Journey, had an Epic Games Store page. No official news, but you don't have a page on a major PC gaming store if you aren't coming to PC eventually.

Never ceases to amaze me how bloody big games are now. I was shocked when I noticed my 2tb games drive was down to 600gb, so I went looking around. Steam Library is 600gb?! So I went and totaled up the space the games are taking... yep, that'll do it. Just Cause 3 is bloody 62gb? Downloading the free weekend Rainbow Six Seige, and it's over 80gb? With the High Res texture pack, it's over 100gb?

Geez. Takes me back to installing Half Life 2 off 7 CD's because I didn't have a DVD drive.

I saw a game or two recently that offered foreign language audio as optional DLC, I think, but I'm totally spacing on which titles. But that's a good way to do it.

I've been mulling over massive install sizes for a bit. In recent months I installed RDR2 and Gears 4 on my Xbox One. RDR2 was a physical copy on two Blu-rays, Gears was a download. Both games, staggeringly, are over the 100GB mark. I have an 80 megabit connection. RDR2 installed in around an hour, with a disc swap in the middle; Gears 4, even on my fairly decent connection, took many hours, I should have timed it but it was a huge chunk of the day. Maybe there's X1X 4K textures in there, I don't know. But why aren't they optional? I can't use them on my base level console.

On the PC side, the last couple of years I've bought F1 2017 and F1 2018 as physical copies, because they've been cheaper (significantly so) and they include a Steam key anyway. They deserve a mention because they still include the entire game on DVDs to install (2017 is on 3 discs; 2018 is on 4). Before them, the last physical PC game I bought was Fallout 4 (for that stupid Pip-Boy; lessons were learned), which, despite its install size, only came on one DVD and still expected you to download the rest. And MGSV, famously (although I didn't buy this one physically), included a disc that literally had the Steam client installer on it and nothing else, not one byte of game code.

I can't help but think of people stuck with terribly slow connections (e.g. @Santa Claustrophobia ) and what a crapshoot it must be buying physical PC games if they choose to do so. And I just like to give Codemasters a shout-out for continuing to do it right with the F1 games even in this day and age - hell, 2017 and 2018 even have smart slipcovers too.

More games needs to steal that feature in the Master Chief Collection where you can say "Hey, I don't give a shit about Halo 4's multiplayer, so don't download that" or "I beat these games already, so just give me the multiplayer" or, if you're like me 'I ain't ever touching multiplayer so just give me the campaigns."

More games needs to still that feature in the Master Chief Collection where you can say "Hey, I don't give a shit about Halo 4's multiplayer, so don't download that" or "I beat these games already, so just give me the multiplayer" or, if you're like me 'I ain't ever touching multiplayer so just give me the campaigns."

More games needs to steal that feature in the Master Chief Collection where you can say "Hey, I don't give a shit about Halo 4's multiplayer, so don't download that" or "I beat these games already, so just give me the multiplayer" or, if you're like me 'I ain't ever touching multiplayer so just give me the campaigns."

I think it does langauges the same way.

Once you reach a certain number of gigabytes, that should be mandatory.

More games needs to steal that feature in the Master Chief Collection where you can say "Hey, I don't give a shit about Halo 4's multiplayer, so don't download that" or "I beat these games already, so just give me the multiplayer" or, if you're like me 'I ain't ever touching multiplayer so just give me the campaigns."

I think it does langauges the same way.

Isn't that how windows handles languages other than your own native installed tongue?

More games needs to steal that feature in the Master Chief Collection where you can say "Hey, I don't give a shit about Halo 4's multiplayer, so don't download that" or "I beat these games already, so just give me the multiplayer" or, if you're like me 'I ain't ever touching multiplayer so just give me the campaigns."

I think it does langauges the same way.

Isn't that how windows handles languages other than your own native installed tongue?

Windows uses the language files of its set region by default, but it's up to the installer to not install foreign languages if you don't want them.